Andrew Johnson

The first of two parts. Next week: Jackson Park.. The possibility that a chunk of Washington Park will be taken out for the Obama presidential library and museum isn't the first time the South Side greensward has been the center of controversy. The argument over what Washington Park should look like predates its creation. In 1869, the distinguished landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted was asked to study a large tract of undeveloped land encompassing what became Washington Park and Jackson Park, the other proposed library location. Olmsted's impulse was to design a formal landscape, like the parks of the great English estates that visually announce "look but don't...

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The first of two parts. Next week: Jackson Park..The possibility that a chunk of Washington Park will be taken out for the Obama presidential library and museum isn't the first time the South Side greensward has been the center of controversy. The...

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